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Siempelkamp: Smart, Sustainable Digital Solutions processes included.
Smart and sustainable technologies and services form a The online spare parts catalogue, which has a far more
prominent part of the trade fair highlights with which the complex structure than a pure online store, also contributes
Siempelkamp team will be launching at LIGNA. to ‘Smart’.

‘Smart’ stands for the company's approach to ensure ‘Sustainable’, the second component of the company’s
maximum efficiency for its customers in the area of raw material trade fair motto, will also be tangible and tangible. According to
use and plant operation. The focus is also on increasing the the company, sustainability and resource efficiency, innovation
productivity as well as the quality of wood-based material and social responsibility go hand in hand in the corporate
plants and boards. concept, as these topics are decisive for the success of
The company already presented its new digital platform people, machines, technologies and services in the wood-
‘IQ’ in 2023. This year, ‘IQ’ will bundle all features of the digital based materials industry.
plant even more holistically. This is evident in the holistic
concept for the analysis, control and optimisation of the new HOLZ-HER: 5-axis CNC Machining Centre

ContiRollÒ Generation 9 iQ line generation. HOLZ-HER GmbH from Nürtingen near Stuttgart, part of the
This new generation will combine the company's traditional Weinig Group, has stood for pioneering woodworking machines
engineering skills with modern digitalisation solutions and AI for more than 100 years.
methods. By merging IT and mechanical engineering, the Now, with the new Epicon 7245, the 5-axis CNC machining
company aims to set new benchmarks in terms of throughput centres with a focus on solid wood processing have been
and resource efficiency. raised to a new level, and the already innovative Epicon series
The company has also achieved an important milestone has been consistently developed further—with the aim of

towards complete plant autonomy: The ‘control room of the offering even more performance and technical sophistication
future’ presents the entry into this autonomy. In future, they than ever before.
will concentrate on monitoring process sequences and only And according to the company, this goal has been
intervene in the event of anomalies. successfully achieved, as the advances are not only reflected
The smart LIGNA topics in the service area also include in the proven advantages of the Epicon series, but also go
the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) process. far beyond them.
Siempelkamp Service has been using EDI for several years The Epicon 7245 is characterised by a massive gantry
in order to combine two essential advantages for the greatest design which, in combination with two Synchro drives, ensures
possible benefit of the customer: the expertise in machine and maximum precision and fast acceleration and milling speeds.

plant engineering and the experience as a technical dealer, The integrated, fully interpolating 5-axis head with axis
a large spare parts warehouse and optimised spare parts interlock, the heart of the CNC, remains a trademark of the
Epicon series. This innovative head makes it possible to
carry out the most demanding machining operations with
maximum precision.
The automatic console table has been adapted for solid
wood processing in particular to ensure optimum performance.

The Epicon 7245 is, therefore, ideally equipped for solid wood
processing, which, according to its developers, makes it the